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UNITED sTATEs PATENT cnr/iron.

WILLIAM H. NOYES, OF GARDINER, MAINE, ASSIGNOR TO GIDDEON S. PALMER, OF

SAME PLACE.

MACHINE FOR REDUCING WOOD TO SLIVERS.

Speccaton of Letters Patent No. 27,597, dated March 20, 1860.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, XVM. H. Norms, ot Gardiner7 in the county of Kennebec and State of Maine, have invented a new and useful Improvement on Machines for Reducing food to Slivers or Fine Shavings, for the purpose of stu'tling mattresses, from wood, the wood being reduced by splitters arranged to split the wood and make" the slivers or shavings of any desired ineness, followed by a common planer for planing ott the wood and making the slivers or shavings and the splitters and planer setting in a stock which is made to traverse back and t'orth by the application of mechanism and power for the purposes above described, of which the following is a full and exact description.

Figure l, is a detached side elevation ot' a machine showing' the sliding stock O, with the slitters C, and planer B. Fig. 2 is an end view of the stock showing the splitters. Fig. 3 is a side View of one section of splitters. llig. et is an cud view showing three sections of splitters together.

rlhe object ot the' machine here considered is the reducing of wood to ine shavings for stutiing mattresses, cushions and other articles.

The nature of the invention consists in the employment in front of the cutter of a series ot' splitting knives so arranged with reference to each other as to score the surface ot the bolt longitudinally without so compressingthe fiber as to cause it to bind upon the said knives, and obstruct their operation, the details otl construct-ion and operation being as follows.

In the drawing, A represents a trame for holding the sliding` stock O, with the cutter Band splitters C, which are constructed of plates of metal with a lance shaped point. Two, three or more of these plates are secured together so that the points shall stand posterior and laterally to each other. The object in setting the points in this manner will be apparent to any one from the following. Then the wood is to be split into tine shavings and the splitters are all put into one tier or row, they of necessity must compress the wood in passing` between the points, thereby clogging the splitters to such a degree that the machine must be stopped often to remove the tibers of wood from the splitters. In setting the lirst tier of points with more space between them reduces the compressure of the wood, thereby preventing their liability to clog, the second tier are set posterior and laterally with the former to give the wood time to regain its former state, after leaving the iirst tier of points and before coming in cont-act with the second tier, each posterior tier arranged so that the points shall stand laterally with the former, for the purpose of dividing the wood to the desired nencss, after which they are planed otl by the planer B. The cutter and splitters being secured in a reciprocating stock and the bolt fed up to it by suitable mechanism.

Having described my invention and the operation thereof, I claim The combination in a sliding stock O of the cutter B, and splitter' C made up of a series of knives in rows so arranged that the posterior rows shall score the spaces left by the foremost row substantially in the manner and for the purpose specified.

XVM. H. NOYES. [1.. s] In presence of- C. DANFORTH,

GEO. 7. VVAITT. 

